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Re:Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear by LastNevadan on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @08:52AM (#39117334)
My favorite example in English is this sentence: "I peered at a pair of pears on the pier."

As a native speaker, the sounds in peer/pair/pear/pier are slightly but detectable different. But non-native speakers can almost never say or hear these differences.

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Re:Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear by Thorrez on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @09:00AM (#39117432)
As a native English speaker (American) I think "peer" and "pier" are pronounced the same, and that "pair" and "pear" are pronounced the same, but that the 2 groups are pronounced quite differently.
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